JUST LET YOUR PLAYERS BE AWESOME SOMETIMES
I know it’s frustrating if your player is a golden god at dealing with some types of situations which defeat your effort to make a challenge for them, but this is one of the cheapest and easiest ways you can enable them to have fun in your game. There will be other situations which present genuine challenge, but it doesn’t all have to be super hard. It is okay to let them flex.
What’s the point of the mechanics including badass abilities if you’re gonna get all frustrated if your players start to become badass sometimes
I think this might be a joke.
Yeah, probably so. I’m just slightly concerned that maybe someone will read someone else joking about just using all stuff with CON saves instead, and think that it is for real and that is the way.
Often times the best way to make them feel badass is to feign frustration as the DM though!
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Poison gas cloud with con save
Or mind-affecting stuff with will saves.
The whole planet implodes
Rogue: 20 + 8 DEX save
Everyone else is dead and everything is gone, rogue “wins”.
Make the implosion a Con save
Never been a fan of evasion being able to nullify aoe damage. You can’t just evade the fire that’s engulfing your entire body. Should be quarter damage rather flat out zero damage.
environmental damage is the answer here.
Hm… Is there a spell in any official book that can turn you incorporeal and therefore Immune to all damage but also incapable of interacting with objects and unable to deal damage physically? 🤔
I know there’s a few that sound like they would from the name, but rule wise don’t actually make you impervious. Like being phased or blink or whatever the one where you’re just visibly blurry.
The Rime of the Frostmaiden adventure book has this:
https://5etools-mirror-2.github.io/adventure.html#idrotf,12,b4. main room
A character killed by the Summer Star becomes an ethereal spirit bound to the Black Cabin
It’s a DC 17 CON saving throw for 10d10+35, save halfs. This is at around character level 5-6. Rogues searching for shines are gonna have to shut the fuck up for the rest of the session. Unless you roll like garbage and they roll like gods, in which case… Idk man, they’ve earned it, let them enjoy it.
I like the idea of being killed by a boss and instead of rolling a new character, you’re stuck at the base camp as a ghost the rest of the campaign. lol
https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0019.html
Looking forward to this for my character. One more level… :D
What are you talking about? Relevant comic btw
